St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-06
Ri0GR APHECAE.
The Record of u Long and Active
Eife--WOrk as IL Preacher and Au.
tEaor--The Tiiton Scandal.

Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litch-
field, Conn.,, June "a, 1913. and is therefore
nearly "A years Of age. He was graduated at
Amherst college in 1884. and studied
theology at Lane seminary. He became
pastor in 1887 of Presbyterian church
ut Lawrenceberg and two years later went TO
indianapolis, Ind. In 1917 he received call
from the Plymouth church, new Congrega-
tionaliSt organization in Brooklyn, n. Y,
Plymouth church of to-day, probably the
largest church and congregation in America.
Almost from the outset of his career in
Brooklyn he began to acquire that
reputation as a pulpit orator which he has
maintained and increased Sduring the whole
forty years OF his passionate. He always dis
carded the mere conventionalities of the cler-
ical profession. He believed that humor had
place in Il sermon as well as argument and
eXhortatiOn, He was fond of illustration,
possessed of a keen sense Of fun, and highly
dramatic in his manner. He believed
that Christianity was not a series of
philosophical or metaphysical dogmas, but a
rule OF life in every phase. He has never
hestated TO discuss from the pulpit all great
social and political questions Of the day, and
mas enjoyed wide popularity as a lecturer
and orator at public meetings. During the
year 1886, before he began to preach he ed
tied the Cincinnati Journal, and while pastor
at indianapolis edited ali agricultural paper,
his contributions to the latter being pub
lished under the title of Fruits Flowers and
Farming For nearly twenty years he was q
contributor to the independent and from 1861
to 1868 was its editor. HIS contributions were
signed with a ''E, and many of them were
afterwards published rs The Star Papers,
For several years ne was editor OF The Chris
tan Union, beginning in 1870. His weekly
sermons, as taken down by stenograDhers
since 1859, have been published under the
title of THE Plymouth Pulpit" and form
about twenty volumes. He has also
II aot tn GST
dustry and Idleness;" Life Thoughts in
two editions edited by Edna Dean Proctor
and War;" 1.-The Plymouth Collections of
Hymns and Tunes;'' Norwood" a novel,
originally published in the New
York Ledger; Sermons from Pub
lished and Unpublished Discourses,'' in
two volumes; 1.-THE Life of Christ in two
volumes, and yale Lectures on Preaching
In 1868 he visited England with special
view to disabuse the public in regard to the
issues of the civil war, and his speeches ex-
erted wide influence in changing public
sentiment, which had been strongly
in favor of the Southern Confederacy.
These speeches were published in England.
In 1874 he was involved in the famous scam
dial, which had for its central figures himself,
Mr.. and Mrs. Titou, Mouton, the mutual
frien1,'' and others. Both Tilton and Beecher
were represented by eminent counsel, ard
after long and sensational trial Mr.. Beecher
received Il practical vindicaton from the
charges of immortality brought against him.
The great divlne'S last visit TO England was
made some months ago when he was the re-
cipient OF many attentions from notable
people. His salary has been $4,000 year,
save ia 1874, when it was made 500, coo.